Dining with Guayasamin
14 x 14 inches Oil on Canvas
Art within Art Series
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I love Guayasamin because he paints emotion and it can really be felt in his works. He always uses huge hands in his paintings. Not really sure why but it sure makes his work stand out and is so different.
In "Dining with Guayasamin I wanted to show the entire room so that the viewer has the overwhelming feeling of the size of his huge works. I hope to see one of his exhibits one day.
Enjoy.
Oswaldo GuayasamÃn (July 6, 1919 – March 10, 1999, Quito, Ecuador) was a Quechua Indian and Ecuadorian master painter and sculptor.
Oswaldo GuayasamÃn dedicated his life to painting, sculpting, collecting. He was given a prize for "an entire life of work for peace" by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. His death on March 10, 1999 was marked by a day of national strikes by the indigenous people (whom he spent his life supporting) and other sectors of society, and was considered a great loss to Ecuador. He is still lauded as a national treasure.
In 2002, three years after his death, Oswaldo's masterwork,La Capilla del Hombre ("The Chapel of Man"), was completed and opened to the public. The Chapel is meant to document not only man's cruelty to man but also the potential for greatness within humanity. It is co-located with GuayasamÃn's home in the hills overlooking Quito.
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